THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC
FRESH CASES IN SYDNEY. (Received this morning 12.40 o'clock.) SYDNEY, August 28. Ten cases of sinall-pox arei reported to-day.
STATEMENT BY MR YERNON REED. M.P. {By Telearaph.—Prexs Association.) "WELLINGTON, Last Night. The attention of the Minister of Public Health has been drawn to the publication in Sydney of a statement alleged to have been made by Mr Vernon Reed, M.P., to the effect that a good many Maoris are at the present time suffering from small-pox. On being approached, Mr Reed informed the Minister that what he had intended to convey was that a good many Maoris had contracted the disease since its first appearance in New Zealand. At the present time he roughly estimated that some 800 were stiffering from the epidemic/
CABLE NEWS 4
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Wairarapa Age, Volume xxv, Issue 10713, 29 August 1913, Page 5
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135THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC Wairarapa Age, Volume xxv, Issue 10713, 29 August 1913, Page 5
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